Betsy DeVos, was confirmed as Secretary of Education with the help of VP Mike Pence. Now the whole country will see how "low energy" Jeb Bush runs an education system, through an education secretary, as he did if Florida. Mike Pence also got a chance to stab the nation's parents and teachers in the back as he did in Indiana. In addition, Donald Trump is proving to be the train wreck I and other nevertrumpers thought he was going to be. I could be wrong, but DeVos would have to go against a lifetime of her own ideology to get rid of common core. Just as Trump will never rise above his liberal progressive New York values, Devos will not rise above hers. So its over. You Trump supporters will have to hold his feet to the fire, while he kicks you in the face. Good luck with that, I'm out!

I'm surprised you are so adament but so be it. I am so far happy with Trump on many levels. I'm willing to wait and see with her. A GOP introduced a bill today to shut down the DOE I think it was in 2018 but don't hold me to that one. I hope - you are wrong. We have to get rid of common core. And do...

I'm surprised you are so adament but so be it. I am so far happy with Trump on many levels. I'm willing to wait and see with her. A GOP introduced a bill today to shut down the DOE I think it was in 2018 but don't hold me to that one. I hope - you are wrong. We have to get rid of common core. And don't worry, I will hold Trump to his promises and so far so good on my check list. Basically I can wait and see what happens with any of his choices and policies going forward because compared to where we would be with Hildabeast, we are smooth sailing with a chance to reach a destination. We would have been doomed before we got out of the port with her.

Allow me to present the following information about the author of the article and then you tell me what you think of Michael Petrilli's perspective.

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover InstitutionBill Gates is rightly considered the father of common core, and funded over $150 million to finance common core through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates, signed a 26-page Cooperation Agreement in 2004 with UNESCO to develop a “master curriculum” which included benchmarks and assessments, for a global education run system run out of the UN.

Since 2011, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute received $3,602,000 in funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since 2011, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution received $8,194,864 in funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,from the K-12 education, college ready and Global Policy & Advocacy programs alone.

Well if you forget who wrote this (ty for the info btw) - what do you think of the opinion itself if you didn't know? I think we are turning a corner away from fed mandated education and that is why she was chosen.

Are you referring to the Primary or the General? If it is the Primary, I would have preferred Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, or Carly Fiorina. I was definitely against Jeb Bush, but as far as education is concerned we bought Donald Trump but received Jeb Bush anyway

I think this is a great idea. However if you think the same bunch of Republicans who reauthorized No Child Left Behind, re-branded as the Every Student Succeeds Act, you are deluding yourself. It may be worth a shot, so go ahead and promote it. As I wrote before, I am out of this game of pretending ...

I think this is a great idea. However if you think the same bunch of Republicans who reauthorized No Child Left Behind, re-branded as the Every Student Succeeds Act, you are deluding yourself. It may be worth a shot, so go ahead and promote it. As I wrote before, I am out of this game of pretending people really care about liberty and the Constitution.

This article and others like it are the reason I am so disappointed by President Trump choosing Betsy DeVos. The stop common core movement had started to become active again to block her Confirmation. Yet this article and no one else even mention common core by name or inference. Who cares what the ...

This article and others like it are the reason I am so disappointed by President Trump choosing Betsy DeVos. The stop common core movement had started to become active again to block her Confirmation. Yet this article and no one else even mention common core by name or inference. Who cares what the Unions think, they were for common core when Obama was in charge. The Stop Common core movement stopped Jeb Bush before he got started. Donald Trump got all the credit for taking out Jeb Bush. Stop common core is still active but you would never know it. This is what I feared most about a Trump presidency. Now I fear that Trump is giving Jeb the Education department just like Rick Scott did in Florida. Jeb is using the same MO, give advice about who becomes the chief Education official and then use them for his own benefit. During the Primary, Trump took an issue that have a profound impact on my kid's future and he used it as a throwaway line against Jeb Bush. Many stop common core activists gave trump a pass becuase Trump said he would get rid of common core. Maybe he will, but picking DeVos is a very poor way to do it.